PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. The list goes on, but suffice it to say, the jokes about digital retailers knowing more about customers than they know about themselves didn’t appear in the culture out of nowhere.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

Like all new technologies, chatbots are facing challenges. It wasn’t until 2016 that we saw the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI)–enabled chatbots bring about a necessary aspect of the technology via a conversational interface. car insurance comparison tool that’s now being made available via Facebook Messenger.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Hot on their trail are machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technology — the software and algorithms promising to reduce the risks of overstocking and understocking, and providing other benefits that can boost retailers’ revenue. This is where the AI will learn and evolve as it works to improve operations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For those who haven’t seen the news earlier this week, here’s what happened: Amazon reported that its online B2B operation , which launched in 2015 and is officially called Amazon Business, has achieved more than $10 billion in annualized sales — with more than half of those sales coming from third-party sellers using the company’s platform.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

Azoulai continued, “Goodwill prioritizes sustainability over ownership, and we’re proud to bolster their rapidly growing eCommerce operations by making it easier for people to purchase items from across the country.”. Price Comparison Shopping. Other Goodwill member organizations are also tapping into technology platforms.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

Thanks to the digital economy and its supporting technology, we can say we are in the “golden age” of this and that. The golden age of product reviews and price comparisons. That’s the story told in a new PYMNTS interview with Jason Hardy, chief operating officer at AgeChecker.Net. That’s where technology can help.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2018

operates more than 65,000 stores in 18 countries worldwide. Grocery stores, by comparison, have gross margins of 27 percent. Enter Amazon Go, a brick-and-mortar convenience store the eCommerce retailer opened last week in Seattle. But the technology may need refining. And so, the company’s other stores followed suit.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

From SPOT to Starbucks , online platforms and retailers are providing consumers with new ways to place orders or make purchases from the car. company-operated transactions. By comparison, mobile ordering and payment accounted for 9 percent of those transactions in the fiscal third quarter of 2017. Currently, 58.7 times a year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Coverage includes Societe Generale ’s selection of HPS for payment operations technology in Africa. European bank Societe Generale has tapped HPS for payment operations technology in Africa, Information Age reported. The bank has operations in 19 countries in Africa. By comparison, remittances were $11.38

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

percent of consumers were shopping for retail goods online as of May 23, up from the 32.5 percent increase of consumers who shopped online for retail goods on April 11 and 24.1 But the ultra-high end is still being shopped at brick-and-mortar retail at countries that have gained some distance from the pandemic. This is a 29.4

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It also means that pharmacies — whether brick-and-mortar or online — are popular places, perhaps even part of a weekend to-do list that includes holiday retail shopping. That is certainly one possibility for innovation and disruption in the retail pharmacy space. That is, indeed, the ideal, as practiced by SingleCare. Larger Trends.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Retailers are designing brick-and-mortar spaces around experiences to attract and keep customers. Chinese eCommerce retailer JD.com , in one case, has just rolled out its inaugural SEVEN FUN lifestyle space in Galaxy SOHO in Beijing. The stores are large operations offering 100,000 items and are about 180,000 square feet.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

Among the more interesting storylines of this era of digital commerce and payments is the maturation of vending machines — sorry, “unattended retail.” Retailers are paying more attention to vending machines, a trend that is all but certain to continue into the 2020s. Vending Machine Trends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

But consolidation looms, according to some observers, and online food delivery services will eventually have to shift more focus away from consumers and toward restaurant operators in order to thrive in a crowded marketplace. Partnerships and technology are becoming increasing important in the delivery space. Postmates Funding.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

Amazon Go operates in a very controlled space with a very controlled population of customers. Yang told PYMNTS how AiFi aims to do this, with the goal of making artificial intelligence (AI) as ubiquitous in retail as WiFi. The average retailer doesn’t have the flexibility to do that, said Yang. The Limits of Amazon Go.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Payments solution firm Paya said Thursday (November 1) that it has acquired Stewardship Technology, an Ohio-based PayFAC focused on nonprofits, faith-based organizations and educational enterprises. So we have picked up an amazing channel that we can continue to invest in and grow.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

26 ,with products from the eCommerce operator averaging nearly 14 percent lower than competing retailers including Walmart and Target, according to an analysis from Profitero. You can thank increasingly sophisticated algorithms for much of that, along with the increasingly fierce nature of online retail competition.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Goodwill NYNJ Executive VP for Retail Operations Lennox Thomas said, according to the report, “Our goal is to offer affordable shopping options to customers using the Price.com for Enterprise white-label browser extension. If a product is deemed authentic, a certificate from the company is created.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

With a round led by ACA Investments, comparison shopping platform iPrice Group has notched $10 million in Series B funding. The round also came with participation from Daiwa PI Partners as well as returning investors Asia Growth Fund, Mirae Asset-Naver, and Line Ventures, according to reports. It now purports to bring together over 1.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

An unexpected consequence of the retailer race to offer same-day and one-day delivery is increased fraud exposure. By comparison, fraud itself is considered a top friction point by only 16.4 False positives aren’t just considered friction points – they are also challenging on an operational level. Nearly one-third (30.4

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

To that end, collaborative efforts between banks and FinTechs are on the rise, where joint programs seek to hasten the availability of technology that dovetails with open banking. The report said that Fifth Third has been ramping up technology investments, with recent efforts aimed at controlling some of those costs.

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Accenture

JULY 9, 2019

Tech firms such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (GAFA) were early adopters, propelling their valuations to be 10x in comparison to banks. Recently, Google and Mastercard have signed a deal to enable Google to track retail sales using Mastercard transaction data. This technology can only improve with scale and experience.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 17, 2017

Recently, Silicon Valley investors and traditional automakers alike have cast their eyes towards technologies with the potential to upend traditional auto ownership and operating models, including tangential developments in car-sharing and ride-hailing. CB Insights clients can click here to jump directly into the comparison.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

As such, grocers are turning to old retail standbys — sales and discounts — to help spur purchases, and for good reason. Nearly half of surveyed consumers told PYMNTS they had used a grocery store’s app regularly or occasionally last year, with most reporting they did so to get better deals, discounts and price comparisons.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Blockchain technology has the potential to impact nearly every industry involving money. However, earlier this week, we reported on a virtual insurance agent company partnering up with Facebook to offer quote comparison shopping via the social media giant’s Messenger chatbot. SR: Impact is slow but expansive.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

million buyers who operate in industries such as website development, logo design and blog writing. Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company GO-JEK , for instance, is expanding its financial technology services through partnerships with peer-to-peer (P2P) lending firms Dana Cita, Aktivaku and Findaya.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The comparison, of course, isn’t exactly apples to apples. households,” with over 300 retailers and 15,000 locations in all 50 states. Wegmans, Aldi, Cub Foods, Food Lion, Price Chopper, Publix, Schnucks, Smart & Final, Sprouts and Tops Friendly Markets are all among the 200 retailers with which the pick-up service is launching.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Zeidan’s company is vertically integrated from development to design, as well as operations and technology. Life House develops real estate by managing the construction of hotels and designs all of the properties itself, while also taking care of operations and branding. The Hotel Concept.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. In the U.S. The Challenge of Building the Right Card for the Job.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

While 10,000 seems like a major milestone — and it is in some ways — the statistic still pales in comparison to the number of apps that major smartphone operating systems boast. Lenovo and Orbita showed the new technology at the 2017 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ( HIMSS ) Conference last week.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It’s hardly competing with Amazon yet, but Target has shown more digital momentum than any major retailer during the pandemic. By a strict look at the macro numbers, Target still pales in comparison. Target has invested in technology and acquisitions to keep its digital assets in-house. Stores: Walmart, 11,500; Target, 1,868.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2016

With O2O quickly proving to be the future — if not already the present — of retail, why are so many luxury brands lagging behind in blending their own online and in-store shopping experiences? Doesn’t seem classy enough, maybe? It is estimated to account for about 40 percent of growth in the space within the next four years.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Despite Chris Rock’s old adage that people “don’t sell drugs, drugs sell themselves,” being in the legal — or at least legal-ish — business of cannabis retail is surprisingly difficult and friction-filled work. As a point of comparison, U.S. Ralston argued it’s a situation blockchain technology is uniquely well-suited to solve.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

The Goldfish team will work out of Target’s tech office in Sunnyvale, California, under West Stringfellow — one of three entrepreneurs in residence who joined up with Target last year to help drive the firm’s latter-day efforts at innovation and out-of-the-box retail thinking. The long game involves spending as much as $2.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. By comparison, Sela said 60 percent of the big pizza chains’ business is digital, leaving room for small pizzerias to grow their digital order base.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

When I look at the last couple of years , our work has been focused purely on building technology and store infrastructure around the country,” Drizly CEO Nicholas Rel l as told Karen Webster in an interview after their new funding was announced. Technology infrastructure? Wait – store infrastructure?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Apple Pay is now live in 24 markets worldwide with over 4,900 bank partners, and we look forward to adding Germany later this year,” he said, adding that recent retail deals involving eBay, CVS and 7-Eleven promise to make the payments tool attractive to more consumers. Visit a major U.S. OK, that might be an exaggeration. transit systems.

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